The Irish famine : a documentary history by Noel Kissane(
Book
)12
editions published
between
1995
and
1996
in
English
and held by
368 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The Irish famine of 845-52 was the greatest catastrophe in recorded Irish history. It was caused by the repeated failure of
the potato crop, the main food source of the poorer class. The failure resulted in hunger, starvation, and ultimately death
or emigration for a quarter of the population - one million died and over a million emigrated. The emigrants formed the main
basis for the Irish diaspora, in Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. This source-book documents the course of
this calamity through contemporary newspaper reports, workhouse records, maps, statistics, and engravings. Education officer
for the Irish National Library, Kissane arranges the material by such topics as the potato, relief under the Conservatives
and Liberals, soup kitchens, fever and disease, charity, evictions, and emigration. The texts also reveal the attitudes and
prejudices of Prime Ministers, administrators, and landlords. It also provides first-hand experiences of those involved in
relief efforts and the trauma and tribulations of the victims and common people. -- Publisher description

Historic Dublin maps by Noel Kissane(
)4
editions published
between
1988
and
1989
in
English
and held by
37 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Illustrated booklet with thirteen maps (some facsimiles of historic maps and some are reconstruction maps of Dublin in the
early and medieval period by historians Annagret Simms and Howard B. Clarke)

The past from the press by National Library of Ireland(
Book
)1
edition published
in
1984
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
Consists chiefly of facsimiles of newspapers from 1660-1956